Cherie Pitillo

PUMA CONCOLOR CONCOLOR Welcome to my personal puma path, part 2 of 2! Part 1 introduced common misconceptions and misrepresentations of the…

Welcome to my personal puma path, part 1 of 2! My first living mountain lion I saw was the Florida panther walking…

Sagittarius serpentarius Other than flightless birds, how far can a bird walk to find food in a day? Would it walk the…

Smile even more, worry even less. SOUTH AFRICA Southern Giraffe, Giraffa giraffa giraffa PHOTO Slider and #1 Wut hhannngover? Burchell’s Zebra,  Equus…

Smile more, worry less. COSTA RICA White-faced capuchin, Cebus capucinus PANAMA Ecuadorian mantled howler, Alouatta palliata palliata Geoffroy’s tamarin, Saguinus geoffroyi SOUTH…

Unpack the trunk, African savanna elephant Three bull African savanna elephants with sleepy looking eyes lumbered quietly by my parked safari vehicle…

Austral Thrush, Turdus falcklandii Some Chilean common names of birds are familiar to us in the US and the Yucatan Peninsula such…

How exciting to see any avian species I didn’t know existed! Plus others looked familiar to identify them to a family level…

Looking through my binoculars while enclosed in a warm car and safely tucked in from brutal winds, I spied an immature Andean…

Imagine when three puma trekkers witnessed something they had never seen in each of their seven years experience among pumas in Patagonia,…